If you’ve ever had he urge to own a mass murderer’s gold and diamond Rolex, well now’s your chance. Haitham Wihaib, an ex employee of Saddam is putting his ex-boss’ bling up for sale to the highest bidder. You can also get your hands on Saddam’s Dior Sunglasses and Cartier Pen which Saddam used it sign death warrants. You’ll also find his pimp walking sticks as well as cameras.
Mr Wihaib is looking to raise approximately £350,000 ($700,000 USD) which he’s pledging to build schools in Iraq with. If you believe that…
Check out Mr Wihaib’s website with all the stuff on, it’s fascinating!
Posted by Tom Wilkins on Mon 8th October 2007 at 03:26 AM, Filed in Unusual Luxury
There is a catch I’m afraid… you need to be dead! I’m talking about launching your ashes into space as it seems so popular to do these days.
An intrepid company called Celestis Memorial Space Flights have a choice of 4 services:
Voyager Service
Launch into deep space £6,000
Luna Service
Launch to lunar orbit or surface £6,000
Earth Orbit Service
Launch into Earth orbit £600
Earth Rise Service
Spaceflight with return to Earth £250
I can’t think of a more peaceful way to go!!!
Yep, you did read that right – you can actually bid for a real Concorde toilet seat at an auction happening in south-western France. Think about all those famous people that have sat on it before you cross it off your wish list!
In addion to the toilet seat you can pick up cockpit instruments, oxygen masks, baggage compartments doors, speed indicators, plate-and-silverware sets, a 1.2-ton landing gear, a Mach-monitoring speedometer and a windshield.
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Posted by Bob Bulmer on Sat 29th September 2007 at 05:57 AM, Filed in Unusual Luxury
Here’s a fascinating list of bands you can hire for your private enjoyments and how much they cost. The Eagles are the current record breakers having performed ‘Hotel California’ at a private party in New York for a massive £4,000,000 back in 2003!
In second place we see old ‘Rubber Lips’ Jagger and the Stones perform for £3.5m for Texas tycoon David Bonderman in Las Vegas in 2002. They made almost £60,000 a minute!
Celine Dion (£2.5 million) for private performance twice or thrice a year and Elton John, (£2 million), who sang at the wedding of London pub supremo Peter Shalson in 2002, secured third and fourth places respectively, reports the Daily Mail.
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Posted by Patrick Woolmer on Thu 13th September 2007 at 02:54 AM, Filed in Unusual Luxury
I stumbled across this rather exquisite company based in South Africa who produce possibly the world’s finest sets of cutlery money can buy. The brand is Diana Carmichael and I challenge anyone to take a look at her site and not be awe inspired by her ranges… there are no prices shown so you can assume us lay people can’t afford even a tea spoon!
Part of the stunning ‘Studded range’.
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